Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-06-10
DAKOTA CONVERSATIONS.

duchess OF Cumberland.
DAKOTA COMBINATIONS.
In a rhetorical contest OF Huron,
Thursday. CLARA Cressey took frat prize.
Absrdeen's new directory contains L.
$40 names, showing o population Of a.
800. Two years ago the population was
1900.
a oolony of about ECO people from the
borders of the sea of Azev, IN southern
Russia, are locating IN the western part
OF Edmunds county.
A. W. Farley, prominent Glendale
farmer, ate q lunch Wrapped il aspapee
that had previously contained gopher
poison. He died Saturday.
w. ~. Powers, a Pnkwana ssaloonist,
was arrested Tuesday for selling without
o license. The ladies of the w. o. Z. u.
are pushing the prosecutions.
The annual meeting Of the directors
Of the Dakota fire and marine insurance
company was held OF Mitchell Tuesday.
No material change was made IN the
officers.
Mrs. VIM. Chandler, OF Vermillion,
who went TO California during the WIN
ter ior her health, has returned very
little improved, and ie now confined to
her room quite sick.
The new change of railroad time is
popular already with Yermillionites
place quite a%little, giving two passenger
trains each way per day.
the territorial statisticiaa,s reports
from sixty counties show .1Os per cent
acreage and 1u0 per cent condition for
winter wheat end $50 aud lao per cent
respectively for spring wheat.
The Hnrney peak tin mining company
With $4,000. GOO capital. has been organ
ICED IN London. Eng, to worR the Black
Hills mines. 1t is thought the company
will bald the projected Rapid City &
Southwestern narrow guage.
The Seventh Day AdYentlsts are
billing Mitchell for a big camp meeting,
to beheld on the fair grounds for one
week, beginning the 22d. They have
100 tents for visitors, besides q large
one Tor services. a big crowd is expect
ed.
The board OF regents OF the Brookings
Agricultural college have let the con-
tract Tor the work on the new college
building to Fisher g. Co., OF Miune-
apoiis. and have also purchased q quar-
ter section Of land. making $40 acres in
all.
One OF the journals at Bismarck
strongly urges DIVISION upon the theory
shat on admission as one state the
capital would be Likely to go farther
south, while with two states, it would be
conceded to its present location Without
much opposition.
The temperance element OF Brown
county are adopting vigorous plans for
. lively campaign this fall. lite pre-
dicted by many that il the friends of
temperance make q thorough canvass
throughout Brown county local option
will succeed. Favorable reports come
from all sections OF the county.
The surveyors Of the Calliope, Burling-
ton 4 Northern railway, under the direc-
ton and 90 -operation OF Canton business
men. have commenced running 4 Enc
from Canton to LsMars, Ia. to connect
with the Illinois Central. The liue viii.
be run via Cail,ops TO Canton, thence
north 20 miles to connect with the Bur-
iiDgton, the TT. Dodge & Sioux Fails
and the Duluth 1ines.
The programme for the Mitchell fire.
mems tournament is out. It lasts four
days and there are prizes in the following:
Hose coupling, single man; free for all
hose race; novelty 'saose race; companion
ship Indictments contest; novelty hook
and ladder race for Dakota aud Iowa;
championship race: novelty laddermen's
contest; championship coupling contest;
chemical engine contest; juvenile ladder
mems contest; championship hook and
ladder race.
The prohibitionists in Sphinx county I
have organized for a thorough can
vass in the interest of what they call
homo protection. The following officers
HAYS boon elected: Jonas Bnuhnell, OF
Worthwhile, president; 9, 81. Myers, OF
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Of Doland, treasurer; s. H. Watkins, OF
Ashton, secretary. A wors.ss 5eam.t-
tee was formed of the members from
each commissioner district in the county.
efforts will be made TO carry
Sphinx county for prohibition at the
coming fsll election.
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